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Past Perfect Tense vs. Past Continuous Tense

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

State the type of tenses: Harith wakes up early everyday.

a)

Simple past tense

b)

Simple present tense

c)

Present Continuous Tense

d)

Past Continuous Tense

2.

State the type of tenses: The pupils are walking into their classroom right now.

a)

Simple past tense

b)

Simple present tense

c)

Present Continuous Tense

d)

Past Continuous Tense

3.

State the type of tenses: Her mother bought her a new bicycle.

a)

Simple past tense

b)

Simple present tense

c)

Past Continuous Tense

d)

Present Continuous Tense

4.

State the type of tenses: He had already done his homework when his mother asked about it.

a)

Simple past tense

b)

Past continuous tense

c)

Present perfect tense

d)

Past perfect tense

5.

State the type of tenses: Darius was sleeping as I walked into his room.

a)

Simple past tense

b)

Past continuous tense

c)

Past perfect tense

d)

Present continuous tense

6.

State the type of tenses: "Sorry, Muthu. I have already eaten my lunch," says Bakri.

a)

Simple past tense

b)

Past partciple

c)

Past perfect tense

d)

Present perfect tense

7.

As she ________________ the beach, suddenly she saw a dolphin jumping out in the air.

a)

strolls

b)

strolling

c)

was strolling

d)

had strolled

e)

strolled

8.

They _________________ to do the chores but they played video games instead.

a)

promise

b)

promised

c)

was promising

d)

had promised

9.

When the theft incident happened, Asyraf and Ghazali ____________ at the bus stop.

a)

chatted

b)

were chatted

c)

were chatting

d)

had chatted

10.

When Halim arrived at Siti's house, she ________________ out.

a)

went

b)

was going

c)

gone

d)

had already gone

11.

Suraya never had any chance to see the books because Watie _____________ them.

a)

sold

b)

sells

c)

had sellen

d)

had sold

12.

Choose sentence(s) that fit/fits past continuous tense(s) type.

a)

Mutiya and Salmah are talking at the moment.

b)

The boys were playing football together when the suddenly it rained.

c)

Karim had already sent the message when he realised the spelling mistakes.

d)

At 6 p.m. yesterday, Naim was washing his shoes.

13.

Fill in the blank with the correct type of verb. Farah (a)   (ask) him about what happened, but he refused to say anything.

14.

As Julia (a)   (sing) in the recording booth, the music producer came in.

15.

Farid (a)   (write) the essay, so he submitted it to his teacher.